Every year, during the month of April, the city of Brussels becomes the capital of all things Fantastic. The BIFFF, one of the biggest International Fantastic Film Festivals of the world (certainly the craziest), screens more than 100 movies during its 13 days marathon, ranging from Fantasy to Thriller, Sci-Fi, Cult, Horror, Anime, Experimental, underground, etc., of which some 90 features and 100 shorts in World, International, European or Belgian premiere.
L’Europe autour de l’Europe - European film Festival Paris will run from April the 8th to April the 21st 2025 in Paris and Île-de-France.
Its selection presents art-house and author films produced by the countries of Greater Europe (members of the Council of Europe) focusing on connections between classic European filmmakers and new talents of contemporary cinema. One of the festival's main objectives is strengthening the creative audiovisual industry network across Europe.
In addition to screenings and Q&A with filmmakers, the Festival presents public masterclasses and panel discussions with prestigious guests from Europe.
L'Europe autour de l'Europe is where the new European film meets the European value-keeping cinema.
LA PECCA -Small Environmental Film Contest- was born in 2007 by the DeFrente Association.
The main purpose of this project is to promote respect for sexual and gender diversity through cinema, contributing to the development of a plural and inclusive society.
Taking a quality film event as a vehicle, we show plural life stories and encourage people to visibly live their sexual and gender identity, to promote social awareness and claim at the same time the right of the LGTBIQ + community to be present in culture and in society equally.
We also give visibility and support to quality cinematography, promoting the discovery of new talents.
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ASOCIACIÓN DEFRENTE is a non-profit organization in Seville that was established in 2006. Since its inception, its objectives have been aimed at serving the lesbian, gay, transsexual and bisexual community in response to a social demand by being this group in a situation of marginalization and discrimination in many areas of daily life.
NIFFFI '21 will offer an international selection of films that showcases our collective, often shared, ways of life. We are a platform for filmmakers who want to tell tales that connect our past to our time. Entries will compete for the flagship NIFFFI Black Fire Award for Best Long Film (30 mins and up) and a new Award for Best Short Film (under 30 mins).
Cine Urutu is the first Film Festival held in the city of Pindamonhangaba, in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. In 2021, the 3rd edition of the event will be held online.
The Zaragoza Film Festival, founded in 1995 to create a cinematic activity in the city. At first his main title was the Young Filmmakers. Since 2007 its official name became the Zaragoza Film Festival.
Festival with various events, generalist and national character (although some of its events are international).
Starting in 2021, after celebrating the 25th edition of the Festival, we propose an evolution of the project.
The cinema is more than alive in the Canary Islands, and more in the island of La Palma.
The Festival of Cinema made in the Canary Islands (#MadeInSecuencia27) is a festival that was born with the aim of promoting and disseminating audiovisual creation through sportsmanship and teamwork, both among fans and professionals, throughout the Canarian archipelago and arises as an initiative of the Cultural Association La Farola Films and its youth section known as the Infant and Youth School of Cinema "Sequence 27".
FECICA is celebrated between the municipalities of Puntallana, Barlovento and San Andrés y Sauces under a written and visual motto that changes in each edition.
with the image of the Punta Cumplida de Barlovento Lighthouse next to the Los Tilos Bridge of San Andrés y Sauces and the Monument to Salto del Enamorado de Puntallana.
The Festival has two competitive sections of the event: the 'General Section', which has short films shot throughout the Canary Islands and the 'Section 32 hours', in which filming takes place on site (between Puntallana, Windward and San Andrés and Sauces ), within the duration of the show itself, in just one and a half days, making this section the hardest cinematographic creation challenge in the Canary Islands. We also have the 'Media and Feature Films Section', a non-competitive section to promote the latest feature films and medium films made in the Canary Islands.
Thanks to this festival, which pursues the coexistence between participants, audience and young people of the Film School, more than the competition between them, the island of La Palma is already a "movie island", which has five festivals more audiovisuals (Festivalito, Tiempo Sur, TazaCortos and La Palma Anime Film Festival). All of them collaborate with this Film Show and are completed with other audiovisual contests throughout the island territory.
It is a festival in which the jury is the children and youth of the association, something unique in our country and that makes it different from other festivals. A festival open to everyone for everyone, without discrimination.
That is our festival. Welcome to the Festival of Cinema made in the Canary Islands SEQUENCE 27!
Around International Awards ✈ Barcelona ✈ Paris ✈ Amsterdam ✈ Berlin.
Annual Independent event with 4 major programs for all Features, Shorts, Documentaries, Experimental, Commercial, Music Video, Animations, Student Films, TV, Series, and New Media. The international community evaluates the all-genre creations to serve ARFF Official Laurels and to certify the awarded filmmakers at the end of the annual festival run. Thus, all the ARFF Finalists will be mentioned multiple times to have the best out of the entire year altogether. Submit today to participate in all 4 programs, regarding the unique system of ARFF International. Submissions made via Festhome are getting evaluated and selected, directly for the yearly festival run and participating in the Official Certificate Program exclusively. Monthly selection is available on other associated platforms. Regarding the Unification Program of ARFF International, all 4 editions will gather at Amsterddam November/December 2024, till then Barcelona, Paris & Berlin editions will take place online.
See you Around & Fest Regards
It will be held in person with online activities .
In-person format, it will be held in the cities of Lebu, Capital of the Province of Arauco, and in the city of Concepción in the Biobío Region, Chile, from April 1 to 6, 2025. With national and international virtual sub-venues for the exhibition of competitions. Since 2018, CINELEBU is the only festival in Chile that qualifies short films for the Oscar® Awards in three categories: International Animation, Regional Fiction, and International Fiction. and since 2023, qualifier for the Goya Awards and Marca Chile.
The Vierte Welle Films Festival aims to give visibility to female, transmasculine and non binari artists and raise awareness about gender inequality, citizen participation, prevent prejudice, fight against discrimination, and recognize rights through audiovisual content, MADE BY WOMEN*, of the so-called fourth-wave feminism.
Fourth-wave feminism is articulated by creating audiovisual and written content of a philosophical, political, economic, social, ecological, and cultural nature, academic or not, and disseminating the same through social networks and traditional media.
The first festival’s edition was in 2019 in Berlin.
The festival is organized by Karne Kunst in collaboration with Sorora e.V and Xochicuicatl e.V. The team responsible for the festival consists of women, mainly with a migration background, and feminist activists in various groups and organizations.
In addition to the screening, the festival is complemented by a comprehensive program including free activities open to the public.
We strongly encourage submissions from artists who experience multiple forms of oppression from Black, Indigenous, and people of color and artists with disabilities, queer, trans, and non-binary/gender-nonconforming people.
Registration for the Festival has a fee, but it can be applied for free using VIERTEWELLE2022.
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CINE FEST VIEW
The MIRADA CINE FEST - International Independent Film Festival will be online and will take place from November 16th to 27th, 2021. Registration is free and is already open until September 30th, and will encompass all film productions with a message for one fairer world for all.
The themes range from human rights, culture, ecology, equality, social responsibility, indigenous peoples, social struggles, combating racism, fascism, homophobia, misogyny, etc. Films can be in various formats, including animation. From shorts to feature films. The official language will be Portuguese, if the film is shot in another language, it must be subtitled in Portuguese.
Mirada Cine Fest is part of FIBRA, the Brazilian International Front Against the Coup, which has more than 70 collectives spread across all continents and whose agenda goes hand in hand with social movements in Brazil. We also have the support of the following companies and organisations: GLED International Education, Colectivo Venus Urania Asociación Cultural y Artística, Smile Train – Brazil and APROCIMA – Angolan Association of Cinema and Audiovisual Professionals and the Ministry of Culture of Angola.
Within the Mirada program there will also be space for laboratories, workshops and new perspectives on how to make cinema, with names such as filmmaker Pedro Paulo Rocha, the son of revolutionary Glauber Rocha and others. The plastic artist Thomas Josué will be responsible for making the trophies. Josué reconciles art and the inclusion of people who live on the margins of society.
We have a crowdfunding campaign to cover the festival's expenses. Ten percent of the amount collected with this campaign will be donated to SATED’s (Union of Artists and Entertainment and Entertainment Technicians of the State of São Paulo) social fund, which provides food assistance to cultural professionals in a precarious situation due to the crisis caused by the pandemic.
The Collective Mirada Independente is formed by cultural producers such as the director and actor of cinema and theater, Eduardo Bodstein, who has experience of other festivals such as the International Festival O Cubo de Cinema Independente in Portuguese Language and FESTIN - Itinerant Film Festival of the Portuguese Language, journalist Patrícia Cassemiro, visual artist and Master in Film Studies, Ermeson Vieira, and actress and PhD in Performing Arts, Elizabeth Firmino.
More details about MIRADA CINE FEST, on the website: https://miradacinefest.org
Application Link: https://forms.gle/4SJtGgxvFZ4GMzBMA
Link to crowdfunding: https://gofund.me/7665e1e4
CONTACT: miradacinefest@gmail.com
Social networks:
Instagram: @mirada_cine_fest
Facebook: @Facebook.com/MiradaCineFest
Twitter: @miradacinefest
YouTube: @MiradaCineFest
Por undécimo año consecutivo, la Asociación de Personas con Discapacidad Verdiblanca y el Ayuntamiento de Almería lanzan el Festival Inclusivo de Cortometrajes Gallo Pedro, dedicado a obras audiovisuales creadas en torno a la inclusión de las capacidades o habilidades diferentes, con el objetivo principal de crear conciencia y sensibilizar a la población sobre las personas con diversidad funcional.
The International Film and Sexual Diversity Festival CINHOMO accepts LGBTIQ-themed films of all nationalities, which will be eligible in the various sections of the festival: Fiction Feature Films, Fiction Short Films, Documentary Feature Films and Documentary Short Films.
The works must not have been exhibited in commercial theaters, broadcast on TV or be available to the public on the Internet or any other platform in Spanish territory prior to the celebration of the festival and must be copyrighted after 01/01/2023. Feature films must be unpublished in the Community of Castilla y León; in the case of short films it will not be exclusive but it will be positively valued. The organization reserves the right to include in the out-of-competition program films that do not meet these conditions.
Hello there,
Coronavirus and the Covid-19 disease changed the world in so many different ways. For the last two years — 2021 and 2022 — we had our festival online, which was a new experience for us. It all went well, and instead of a small audience at one venue, we had the audience around the world! That was one big benefit, but we missed having people together, and talk about the films and make new friends.
Due to the uncertainty of the pandemic, we are still unsure of holding the 18th edition of the Free Spirit Film Festival (2022) at certain venue like in the past. If gathering still remains as an issue, we will host it online again.
If the pandemic situation changes, and we could hold the festival at certain venue, we will announce when and where once we have those finalised. Submissions will be opened in June.
Be safe!
Sincerely yours,
Lobsang Wangyal
Festival Director
26th International Film Festival of Kerala
10-17 December 2021
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Organised by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala
Fotofilm Internatıonal Short Film Festival is an innovative concept that aims to shine a spotlight on new generation world-language filmmakers and to give internet users across the globe the chance to share their enthusiasm for world cinema.
Our mission is to promote films, and be another step up in the filmmakers' careers.
Fotofilm International Short Film Festival is a festival open to filmmakers and film lovers. Is festival of world cinematography, where short films, videoclips, webseries and video arts from all over the world come together to compete for the various prizes of the festival.
Harrogate Film Festival provides a forum for young and established filmmakers to offer short films in competition. Submissions are welcomed from filmmakers based anywhere in the world. The only exclusions are for films funded by national film studio and television companies or affiliated organisations. Harrogate Film Festival cannot provide any financial support for any aspect of the submission process.
Waves & Vibes - Tourism & Lifestyle International Film Festival is seeking for short films with English subtitles (srt) up to 30 min, produced in 2019 - 2021.
The live screenings will be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg on October 1 - 11, 2021.
DATE AND LOCATION
The 28th edition of the European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux will take place from March 27th to 28th 2024. The projection nights will take place at the UGC Ciné-Cité cinema in Bordeaux.
GOALS
The European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux aims to promote the short film format to the Région Aquitaine's audience. It facilitates the access to cinema for a large public, from all ages. It also supports the discovery of talented directors coming from all over Europe.,It’s a way for the filmmakers to be appreciated by a jury, no matter if they are mere enthusiasts or professionals.
